2006-11-23 06:25:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Good hard-boiled? Well, start with Dashiell Hammet - The Dain Curse or Red Harvest, some include Raymond Chandler but I've always thought him a little romantic for the true hard-boiled. If you disagree try The Long Goodbye or Lady in the Lake.
Of the same time try people like James M Cain (Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice) and Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me and Savage Night) and David Goodis (Moon in the Gutter and Nightfall) and Cornell Woolrich (The Bride wore Black and I married a Dead Man) and there's a boke called John Franklin Bardin who wrote The Deadly Percheron and The Devil Take the Blue-Tailed Fly which are boiled to a crisp and just plain weird.
Those are IMO the most representative names from the true hard-boiled era - when men were men and women were dames and someone usually got a straight left to the kisser somewhere along the way.
2006-11-23 10:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Books by the following:
Robert Parker
Robert Crais
Michael Connelly
Sue Grafton (not too hardboiled)
Dennis Lehane
SJ Rozan
and above all, the best of the lot:
James Lee Burke
2006-11-23 14:44:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about "The Big Over-easy" by Jasper Fforde? It's a comic take on classic old-style detective fiction set in the Nursery Crimes Division.
Humpty Dumpty is found dead a the foot of his favourite wall ... but did he fall or was he pushed. Or is there, perhaps, an even more sinister explanation.
You can't get your detective fiction any more "hard-boiled" than that!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Over-Easy-Jasper-Fforde/dp/0340897104/sr=1-1/qid=1164310261/ref=sr_1_1/203-9915083-6090310?ie=UTF8&s=books
2006-11-23 14:26:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Lynley Series---Elizabeth George
Thomas Pitt Series---Anne Perry
William Monk Series---Anne Perry
J. P. Beaumont Series---J.A. Jance
Kate Martinelli Series---Laurie R. King
2006-11-23 14:48:17 · answer #4 · answered by arenee1999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any book by Mickey Spillane, especially the Mike Hammer books.
2006-11-23 18:10:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try the funny side of detective stories:
Douglas Adams:
The long dark tea-time of the soul
(yes, it's the guy from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy)
british humor at it's best!!! and not least a good story.
2006-11-23 15:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
raymond chandler, the big sleep
2006-11-23 15:58:43 · answer #7 · answered by Ms. Switch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋